Process of making sugar.



Patented Apr. I0, |900.

No. 647,|o9.

J. G. uxNAnn & w.BAun.

PROCESS 0F MAKING SUGAR.

` (Application led Apr. 19, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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' x"rn STATES ATENT Ottici-3.

JAMES G. OXNARD AND WILHELM BAUR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO THE OXNARD CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, OF WEST VIRGINIA.

PROCESS OF MAKING SUGAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 64'"?,109, dated April 10, 1900.

Application filed April 19, 1897. Serial No. 632,762. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES G. OXNARD, a citizen of the United States, and WILHELM BAUR, a subject ofthe Emperor of Germany,

5 both residents of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Processes of Manufacturing Yellow Clarilied Sugar, of which the following is a specilo cation.

Our invention relates to a process of manufacturing standard yellow clarified sugars (of about ninety-seven polarization) from sugarcane without making at any stage of the process an inferior or lower grade of sugar which has to be remelted.

Our invention consists, essentially, in producin g in a straight strike a yellow clarified masse-cuite from clarified cane-juice, then 2o taking the first molasses (green syrup) and clairce purged from this masse cuite and clarifying and combining the same with fresh cane-juice and boiling to produce a second clarified masse-cuite, then purging this secz 5 ond masse-cuite and washin g the same to yellow clarified sugar and separately collecting the final molasses and the clairce obtained from washing the masse-cuite, and clarifying and filtering the said clairce and combining 3o it with a portion of fresh cane-juice and the first molasses (green syrup) and clairce of the first masse-cuite, thereby making from the second masse-cuite a masse-cuite producing a yellow clarified sugar of a standard sub- 3 5 stantially equal to the yellow clarified sugar produced by the first masse-cuite.

In the drawings hereto annexed,lFigure l illustrates a diagrammatic ligure of an apparatus by which our process may be carried 4o out. Figs. 2 and 3 are vertical and horizontal sectional views of the centrifugal.

The object of our invention is to extract all of the sugar-containing juices from cane and to manipulate these juices so that all the sugar obtainable from the juices will be in the form of yellow clarified sugar and final molasses.

We will now describe our process in full, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The juice,wl1ich has been clarified and con- Vby water or other means, and then spun ofi or purged and washed in centrifugals D'. 65 The sugar remaining in the centrifugals will be a yellow clarified sugar and ready for the market.

The first molasses (green syrup)andclairce, which have been purged from the masse-cuite 7o by the centrifugal action of the machines, are collected in a tank or vessel E and diluted with water to about the density of the thick juice, clarified and filtered in the usual manner, and are then ready to be boiled in the vacuumpan F with that part of the thickj uice reserved for this purpose, as before mentioned. To further this operation, the tank B', containing the portion of the thick juice originally reserved, is connected with the pan 8o F by means of a pipe a', and the first molasses and clairce in the tank or vessel E are pumped or otherwise delivered into the blowups E and will be clarified, as usual, and delivered into storage-tanks E2 and finally into 85 the mixed vacuum pan F with the aforesaid reserved or fresh thick juice, whereby the degree of purity of the first molasses and clairce is raised. The mixture in the pan F is about ive to six points lower in purity 9o than that in the straight pan and is boiled in this vacuum-pan F for yellow clarified sugar masse-cuite, together with the clairce obtained from washin g a previous pan of the same kind, as we will presently disclose. The masse- 95 cuite of this mixed vacuum-panF is dropped into a closed vessel Gr, provided with a cooling-jacket and means for stirring the massecuite, and is left therein for about eighteen to thirty hours to enable it to be cooled to a roo temperature of between and 100 Fahrenheit and is then discharged into a centrifugal mixer I-I of any suitable and well-known type and washed to yellow clarified sugar and spun off or purged in the centrifugals H', which are fully shown, described, and claimed in an application filed by us June 18, 1897, Serial No. 641,307. In this instance, however, the centrifugals I-I are provided with perforated coils b, which are arranged in such a manner that by means of steam or hot water forced through the coils and perforations the inner walls of the outer basket c, as well as the collectinggutter d at the bottom, are thoroughly Washed and freed from the syrup adhering to them. The gutter d has preferably a movable nozzle e to enable the operator to direct the outflow of the various Syrups coming from this centrifugalinto different channels or gu tters, the purpose of which arrangement will be manifestfrom the following: The masse-cuite is dropped from the mixer H into the centrifugal H,of which the inner wall of the outer basket and gutter has been washed, as just described, and the centrifugal is run until the final molasses stops running from the masse-cuite. If the masse-cuite from the mixed pan has been treated as above described, it will be found that the molasses resulting from the treatment is of final-molasses purity and all the sugar obtained from the masse-cuite is a standard quality of yellow clarified sugar, without making at any stage ofthe process another or inferior kind of sugar which has to be remelted. In other words, all the juices and syrups will be boiled into a masse-cuite, which will produce a yellow clarified sugar and final-molasses, without the necessity of boiling any of the sugar solution to any lower grade of sugar, so that the only products made by our process are a standard-quality yellow clarified sugar and molasses. Before the steam or water is turned on in the coils b the movable outlet or nozzle e may be turned to discharge into a second gutter or trough f to carry off the clairce obtained from washing the masse-cuite. After the sugar remaining in the centrifugal is washed to the desired standard and before the machine is stopped the water or steam should be turned on in the outer basket and the collecting-gutter thereof thoroughly cleansed to remove all particles of high-testing washed syru ps. The clairce received into the trough f is to be delivered by a pump, for instance, into the blow-ups E', and clarified and received into the tanks E2, and finally sent to the mixed pan, as beforealluded to. By this means we recover all of the sugar-containing juices from the cane and utilize them to produce a yellow clarified sugar, and we' dothis without making 'at any period of the process any grade of sugar inferior to or lower than standard yellow sugar or which requires remelting.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Iletters Patent, is-

1. The process herein described of manu= facturing yellow clarified sugar from cane# juice which consists, essentially, in produc ing a yellow clarified masse-cuite from clarified cane-j nice; then taking the first molasses (green syrup) and clairce of this masse-cuite and clarifying and combining the same with fresh juice and boiling to produce a second yellow clarified masse-cuite; then purging this masse-cuite and washing the same and collecting the final molasses and the clairce separately, and clarifying and filtering the said clairce and combining this clairce with a portion of fresh juice and the first molasses (green syrup) of the first masse-cuite, for

making from the second masse-cuite a massecuite producing a yellow clarified sugar of a standard equal to the sugar produced by the first masse-cuite.

2. The process herein described of manufacturing yellow clarified sugar from canejuice which consists, essentially,in producing a yellow clarified masse-cuite from clarified cane-juice; then taking the first molasses (green syrup) and clairce obtained from this masse-cuite and clarifying and combining the same with fresh juice and boiling to produce a second yellow clarified masse-cuite; then agitating and reducing the temperature of this second masse-cuite; then purging the masse-cuite and washing the same to yellow clarified sugar, and collecting the final molasses and clairce separately; and clarifying and filtering the said clairce and combining this clairce with a portion of fresh cane-juice and the first molasses (green syrup) and clairce of the first masse-cuite, for making from the second masse-cuit-e a masse-cuite producinga yellow clarified sugar of a standard equal to the sugar produced by the first masse-cuite.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed our names, in presence of two witnesses, this 15th day of April, 1897.

JAMES G. OXNARD.

WILHELM BAUR.

Witnesses: O. G. HAMILTON, S. D. ScHENcK.

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